Nutritionists and researchers from as early as the 1950s have been investigating isoacids in dairy nutrition. Now, decades ...

Rumen measurements taken from CT scans can be used to predict methane emissions, studies by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) ...

“After establishing mineral consumption, determine what supplementation type makes sense for your herd to provide enough ...

The dairy cow’s rumen is a large bioreactor, home to a diverse and dense population of microbes. A single teaspoon of ruminal ...

A scientist guides a long tube into the mouth and down to the stomach of Thing 1, a two-month-old calf that is part of a ...

Feed (concentrates and forage) makes up about half of input costs on Northern Irish dairy farms (CAFRE benchmarking data, ...

While a healthy animal is less susceptible to problems — especially when mycotoxins are only present in low levels — any ...

“The use of buffers, sufficient effective fiber and microbials to stimulate rumen function can be helpful.” If mycotoxin contamination is suspected, the use of absorbents to prevent animal absorption ...

Your winter milk herd would have started to calve down from the start of October and now that we are about six weeks into ...